When Edna Mauk was born on 9 June 1829, in Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, her father, Andrew Mauk, was 28 and her mother, Sarah F Droke, was 23. She married Benjamin Shipley Jr in 1846, in Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in District 7, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 7, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died on 18 February 1918, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
South German (Swabia): from Middle High German māc, māge ‘relative, kinsman’ (see Maag ). Compare Mauck 2.
Germanized form of Sorbian Małk (see Malke ).
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